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Is China heading for a recession?

Some influential commentators are now suggesting that China has as high a chance of sinking into recession over the next couple of years as the US (see Kenneth Rogoff in today’s FT for an example). This is surely absurd. In particular, concerns about inflation and export dependence are overdone.

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